Interview on Al Jazeera, top cat face emojis, and more!

Some updates from PRISMOJI world:

Last week, The Stream on Al Jazeera broadcast an entire segment on emoji diversity and their role in popular culture. PRISMOJI founder Hamdan Azhar was one of the panelists, along with Emojipedia’s Jeremy Burge, linguist Gretchen McCulloch, and Kate Miltner of USC. Take a listen here!

We published an analysis of the top emojis of World Emoji Day! Check out the entire article on Emojipedia. We’re especially excited by our analysis of the top cat face emojis, which is the first research finding in this area to our meow-ledge.

We’ve partnered with Grafiti and Polygraph to start a monthly Data Storytelling NYC Community Meetup! Check out the pictures from our firsttwo events, and follow along with future events here!